The BBC spoke to the home’s owner, Prosper Kaze – who fled Burundi during the 2015 protests as a member of the Burundian opposition and confirmed the house is located at 73 Avenue Ntwarante, Kinindo in the South part of Bujumbura.

“It’s the place where I grew up, so I can’t mistake it,” Kaze told the BBC earlier this year.

In 2015, peaceful protests claiming Nkurunziza’s plan to run for a third term in office were unconstitutionally turned violent, resulting in people rioting in the streets and hundreds being shot dead.

After Kaze and his family left Burundi, images surfaced of the country’s security forces raiding his home and taking control of it.

This year, a person known as ‘Pierre’ who claimed to have been held captive in the house revealed the horrific treatment allegedly suffered by individuals at the hands of intelligence service officers.

“If they wanted to question someone, they would call him and they would approach the ‘Chief’,” he told the BBC.

“If they were not satisfied with your answer, they would torture you. You would hand them your hands and they would beat you with electric cables, also they would cane you… while kneeling.”

Pierre also claimed he heard two people who attempted to escape be violently killed in the grounds of the building.

“We could hear people shouting and saying, ‘get those dogs, don’t let them escape’,” he said.

“When they finally caught them, I could hear them screaming in a way that suggested that they were being killed or being inflicted excruciating pain.

“They did not come back in the house after, I think they were killed.

“[The ‘Chief’] said, bring socks and stuff in those dogs and load them in the car.”

Another person, known as ‘Nathan’ who claimed to have been a security guard at the house in December 2016, told the BBC he witnessed three detainees be killed.

“An intelligence agent came and took them out of their detention room to the living room,” he said.

“[The chief] ordered his guys to behead them. At that point, one of the guys, who was a tough man, tried to forge ahead and escape.”

The allegedly ‘torture house’ located in Kinindo.

After the one escapee was allegedly caught and killed, and the other two men beheaded, Nathan said their bodies were disposed of, but their blood remained.

Kaze said that, if the blood had been cleaned up and poured into a bathroom drain, it would link up with the gutter that is featured in the social media video.

Burundi government rejects the BBC video, alleging it was a ‘mere fabrication’.

Despite that, the Burundian government has always denied any connection to the alleged detention locations and has not commented on the social media video.

But, the head of communications in the Presidency, Willy Nyamitqwe lashed out at this BBC Documentary, calling it was ‘based on the testimony of criminals’.

The @BBCNews story is based on the testimony of criminals. How can the owner of a weapons cache house be their main witness? This story is full of false affirmations and liés. The #BBC should hang its head in shame.#Burundihttps://t.co/CeC7pTBbwf

In response, an anonymous individual told the BBC that while there is currently no unrest in the country, the alleged killings of political prisoners still occur under the name ‘Kamwe Kamwe’ – meaning ‘one by one’.

“Some people think that the country is safe now,” he said.

“I want to tell you this-this small respite is, for them, the best time to carry out the killings without anyone noticing it.”

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